Climate
The factor that has the strongest affect on the climate of a region is this
What is latitude?
A cloud that forms close to the ground is called this
What is fog?
This is a funnel shaped cloud with high speed winds
What is a tornado?
True or false: a capital L is used to symbolize a low pressure system
What is true?
This layer of the atmosphere is the one in which our weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
The three main climate types are these
What are polar, temperate, and tropical?
Puffy clouds that are found at middle altitudes are called this
What are cumulus clouds?
This is a tropical storm with wind speeds reaching 74 miles per hour
What is a hurricane?
True or false: Using a meter stick to measure snowfall is always accurate.
What is false?
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which meteors burn up
What is the mesosphere?
This is the average weather taken over a period of time in a specific region
What is climate?
These types of clouds are found at the lowest altitudes and are layered and thick
What are stratus?
What are 35 miles per hour and 1/4 of a mile?
Scientists that study and predict the weather are called this
What are meteorologists?
This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
Scientists believe that global warming may be caused by an increase in these
What are greenhouse gases?
Cirrus clouds are found at the ____ altitudes, are described as _____ and are made up of _____
What is highest, wispy, and ice crystals?
When two different air masses meet, it can cause this to form
What is a front?
True or false: Low pressure systems often bring stormy weather
What is true?
This is the layer in which the Aurora Borealis occurs, and has the greatest range in temperature
What is the Thermosphere?
When the water in the Pacific Ocean gets warmer than usual, it can create an unpredictable weather pattern called this
What is El Niño?
This is a description of the way clouds are formed
What is: a cold air mass meets a warm air mass, and the cold mass pushes the warm mass upward. The water vapor in the warm mass condenses around particles of dust and clouds are formed.
This is the process that creates the lightning and thunder during a thunderstorm
What is: When warm air is pushed up by cold air, thunderheads form. The movement of the warm air up is called an updraft, while cooler air is moving down. The particles inside the cloud start to move so fast, they create static electricity and eventually this creates a spark, which is lightning. The heat from the lightning causes the air around it to expand, and this rapid expansion of air creates thunder?
The two sides of a mountain are referred to as this and this side is wetter and cooler
What are windward and leeward and what is windward?
The layers of the atmosphere are in the following order:
What is: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere?